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How We Built the Dining Room Fauxdenza (and Why It’s Not Quite Done)

July 14, 2020 - 44 Comments

Back in March, we built a fauxdenza in the dining room and it has been a wonderful, budget-friendly way to get a lot of storage for not a lot of money. It’s called a “fauxdenza” because although it looks like …

Our Life, Projects

We’re Back! A Big Life & Renovation Update!

July 13, 2020 - 50 Comments

There are ups and downs to every job, but I’ve always said one of the biggest downsides to this job–sharing our home online every day–is that the Internet never sleeps. It doesn’t sleep when the baby sleeps or through illnesses …

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Casual Friday: The Painted Music Room & More

July 3, 2020 - 28 Comments

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Installing Pocket Doors in the Closet

July 2, 2020 - 31 Comments

Our closet has been a really fun project, and something that added tangible value to our home, both in square footage and utility. But ever since the room was created, we haven’t had functioning doors. Until this week! Pocket doors …

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How Do you Keep Your House Clean with a big Dog?!

July 1, 2020 - 18 Comments

This post is sponsored by eBay “How do you keep your house clean with a big dog?!” is a question I get on the daily. I’ve addressed it here when I talked about all my loves, errr vacuums. (It takes an …

DIY, Inspiration

Painting the Music Room + Jewel Toned Inspiration

June 30, 2020 - 53 Comments

We had a different project scheduled for this week, but the weather is so crappy (spoiler alert: it was an outdoor project) that we couldn’t carry it out. But I was so excited to check something off the list that …

Decor, Inspiration, Our Life

Casual Friday: A Few Favorites from the ORC, My Yellow Obsession, More Charly!, Sandals I love & more!

June 26, 2020 - 12 Comments

This week was the One Room Challenge Reveals and there were so many amazing spaces and stories. It feels like forever since we participated creating the girls’ bunk room! This season there were a lot of setbacks and delays due …

Design, Inspiration

Would You Buy Something Refurbished? (I do…a LOT!)

June 25, 2020 - 37 Comments

This post is sponsored by eBay. A few fun facts: I have purchased five vacuums (two for our home + three for gifts), a fancy blow dryer, three Frame TVs, two Bose speakers (with perfect sound!), countless kitchen gadgets and …

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Storage and Organization in the Garage

June 24, 2020 - 26 Comments

While Gladiator® sent us some of the products in this post, they did not pay us to write about it. All opinions are our own. All the products and accessories used are linked at the end of this post. All …

Decor, Design

“Decorating My First Apartment”: A lesson in budget-friendly classic pieces and creating moments

June 23, 2020 - 97 Comments

Brooke is our social media manager and recently moved into her first apartment in Idaho. We Ooo and Ahh over photos of her place and felt it was high time we shared her California-casual style with our readers. Whether you’re …

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